In the Age of Mankind: A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution

by Roger Lewin

Spectacular color photographs and vivid text by authors Lewin tell the story of human evolution in an impressive Smithsonian publication.

Genres: Anthropology, Science, Nonfiction

255 pages, Hardcover

Published August 17, 1988

About the author

Roger Lewin (born 1944) is a British prize-winning science writer and author of 20 books.

Lewin was a staff member of New Scientist in London for nine years. He went to Washington, D.C. to write for Science for ten years as News Editor. An example article was "Evolutionary Theory Under Fire", 21, November 1980, vol. 210, pp 883–887. Lewin wrote three books with Richard Leakey. He became a full-time freelance writer in 1989 and concentrated on writing books. In 1989 Roger Lewin won the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books for Bones of Contention.


In 2000, Lewin formed Harvest Associates with wife Birute Regine for business consulting. Together they wrote, The Soul at Work: Unleashing the Power of Complexity Science for Business Success, Orion Business Books (1999), republished as Weaving Complexity & Business: Engaging the Soul at Work, Texere (2000). He is a member of the Complexity Research Group at the London School of Economics.

Reviews

[Valerie Carter-cole · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a Smithsonian publication so, of course, it is beautifully produced and a joy to lead through. But just as a Smithsonian magazine is eye candy and interesting to read, this book was far from making the juices of curiosity and "aha" moments that Leakey's ground breaking "Origins" did.

[Derek Baker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Goes over lots of discoveries you may have heard about in some brief blurb on the news, but of which you didn't get to learn the significance. For old guys like me, lots of stuff that came out after I got out of college.